Usage of the Agent-Service Approach for the Development of Intelligent Decision Support Systems in the Energy Sector

Abstract

Recently, the concept of intelligent energy systems becomes more popular in Russia. In order to implement such systems, it is required both development and usage of modern information technologies to manage technological infra-structure, and upgrade of this infrastructure. In turn, infrastructure upgrade requires a strategic decision-making for energy sector development. To provide a high quality of such decisions, intellectualization of the process of making them is required. This article deals with usage of agent-service approach for development of intelligent decision support systems (IDSS). Concepts of agent and multiagent system are being considered. Detailed description of agent-service approach and architecture of a typical IDSS, used in this approach, is provided. Also, article considers usage of agent-service approach for development of IDSS “Situation polygon” (for strategic decision-making support in energy sector) and web-oriented information-analytical system WIS (for impact assessment of the energy sector on geoecology). In the future, we plan to add additional functionality in these systems, in particular, to provide in the “Situation polygon” an automatic setting of the values of connections in cognitive maps based on the values of connections in the ontology, and to add in WIS the possibility of calculating the trajectory of the transfer of harmful substances.